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Chaucer would have chronicled Frank Hodges among his pilgrims on the Canterbury Road. He would have noted the scholar's paleness of his cheeks and brow. I know not how it is, hat when ever I have seen Mr. Hodges I have pictured him against a background of imagined cloisters, studious monk at work on his manuscripts.

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to read to the affect, as I inter- pret them, that our goal in mot won by the wings of eagles nor by this swift feet of the runner, but by the slow plodding onward. of the pilgrim, often weary, bat nover näbellowing.

BEGAN LIFE IN THE PITS.

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Mr. Hodges was born in the little village of Woollaston, near Chepstow." He is of Walsh stook. Ha want to work in the pita al the age of fourteen at Abertillery in Monmouthshire. That

fact to

be remembered in the judgments we pass in hot and disturbed moments when the miners ultimatum has shaken the contented conventions of our domestic lives. This fine, frail piece of humanity, sensitive in response, as still it is, to the: appeals af music and literature and the things that thoughts doi but tenderly touch," was flung into the dark conditions and perils| of a miner's day at an age when his critics were at a public school. Had the experience been ours we might all have been industrial nonconformists, passionately and, ceaselessty mating protesta against the whole system.

He began to meditate upon the fact that there was an era in British history when the produc-: tion of wealth was carried on with carelessness of tuman vainas:) He looked round upou tha į devastating conditions in which miners had to live and spend their leisure. The fire burned within him.] He began to see in Charles Lamb's easy about the burning down of houses so that the luxury of ex- ting roast pig might be enjoyed, a satire of an economic process that ruthlessly destroyed the physical tissues of our race in order to win the treasures of the earth.

LED A STRIKE OF STUDENTS. Coal was won at the cost of body and soul. The price was 'too | high. It was Mr. Hodges who prepared most of the evidence; presented by the miniera to the Coal Commission. Here is an excerpt: "In the 15 years before the war, up to 1914, 22,000 men and boys were killed, and more) then 3,000,000 were injured in the| coal mines of this country."

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Mr. Hodges gradually qualified TO-DAY'S RECIPE

as a skilled coal-hewer. In his later teens he took a prominent, part in Church work. He became a lay preacher among the Prim- itive Methodists, and I believe he looked forward to entering the ministry of that Church. It is remarkable how closely the early judgments upon

strikes

lives of many of the miners' discontents. We would be saved leaders have been linked up with from foolish speech.

the doings of the folk called Mr. Hodges

Methodists. The coldness of the has something Pauline about him. Athens and Church towards urgent social pro- Rome seemed to be so firmly

blems drove him to warmer rooted in strength of splendour hearths. and in 1909 he obtained a miners' Federation Scholarship and power that the evangel of Bethlehem most, indeed, have and went to Ruskin College, of Oxford. I should like to pause thing a naught against their proud here to comment on the fact, so walls. But the apostle knew, and lamentable as it seems to me, this young minors leader knows, that the Church apparently does that guspels and ideas are pot show a deeper interest in the mightier than the physical world. great issues which are agitating Mr. Hodges is in his youth, the minds of millions in our land

15 He is reserved. He is 33 years old. Secretary of to-day.

a challenging ascetic, bushed, but with the

one of the greatest of the Trade theme, and I might involve quist that can blaze into righte-Unions in bis early thirties, what the editor in considerable con- ous indignation. He always may he not become, given health troversy

I to say more. seems to me to be the servant of of body and a continuance of his At Ruskin College Mr. Hodges a religion, with the deep quietudes zeal and eagerness of heart and took a leading part in a strike of of soul and the fierce intensities mind, in the momentous years students, and helped to found the of passion that mark the apostle. I that are to be? For what we are

Central Labour College. He is writes "One Who Knows Him."witnessing in an intense argu--

intensely interested in education. It is strange, I know, that I ment and collision between the should describe him in nedí-old order and scheme of things! дека! terms. for he is and the new. Strikes and strangely modera, one of the outs are the weapons used. leaders of a powerful Labour organisation that hallenges the industrial past and present, and is impatient of the delay of his

dream's slow incarnation. Yet, I believe I am right. His is the old. old desire sad purpose to build noble shrines and temples in the manner of them who built our cathedrals, and, as Ruskin so beautifully expresses it, left us their adoration. In other days he

might have been engaged in help ing to translate a spiritual ideal into a physical poem of scalptured stone, as at York Minister or at the Abbay of Westminster.

BUILDER OF A NEW BRITAIN,

To-day he is the builder of the new city. He has determined to spend himself-and no religious vow was ever more solemnly made -in creating a new Britain in which the dignity of toiling man- hood and womanhood shall be the pillars and the corner-stones.

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PRIME MINISTER YET?· All who meet hire in conver lock-sation, and Cabinet Ministers who hear him at the conference table. detect the note of study and cul- ture. Indeed as I have said, the paller of culture is on his brow.)

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THE IMPATIENCE OF YOUTH. Without the war the upheaval would bare come. The WAI brought the conflict into His public speeches are closely own generation. I am using the reasoned. They are not merely terms of civil war rather as con- appeals to the crowd-mind and venient vividness of image than his logic finds a Stting garment as literal, truth. Perhaps I had chaste and nervous language. better say that, so far as iny His primary appeal is to the in- observation goes. the restlessness tellect but his speeches also stir of these present simes is due not and fire the heart. Mr. Hodges to a conflict of classes, but to the is indeed the new order of Labour yearnings of a whole people to leader in the making. He is pro- fashion a new programme of life. pherie of the cultured interpreters Mr Hodges is young. He has who shall arise to expound the the impatience of youth. He claims of Labour. He may easily desires bis millennium to dawn become the Prime Minister of on the morrow, not for personal Labour. and selfish reasons, but for the healing of his fellows. I am told. that sometimes he will sit in the

crossed the 'perilous 1813 to man sees it, will come away found and establish their com asserting that nothing is to be munity. He shares their passion, He would bave been of their number. But not afar off will he build bis ideal State. Here in

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to defence and foreign rela- tions shall be reached. 2.-That North-East Ulster must

not be compelled to accept for itself the above form of government if it prefers to enjoy the position given to it by the Act of 1920.

gallery of the House and listen ALTERNATIVE TO IRISH to the debates in this present Parliament, and, kindled into wrath by the inability of the

doning the powers and privileges speakers to be old the central

assured to them under the Go- tragedies of life, as the working. Dominion Status, with Guar-vernment of Ireland Act: 1920, antee Against Separation. to join with their fellow-country-

mthen in an assembly with the ail hoped for from Westminster which Sir Horace Plunkett i

The Irish Dominion League, of of keeping Ireland contentedly[ He determines that industrial president, bave drawn up a plan and that these entitled to speak in the British Commonwealth, surgery must be tried.

I am patting his point of view, of Irish government which is to for the majority of the Irish peo-

It is proposed that a meeting re- the heart and core of the not endorsing it. This article is be submitted to the Prime Mini-ple should be asked to abandon presenting all Ireland shall be industrial and political world he simply a diagnosis of character. sier as an alternative to the de- separation for the sake of Irish held for to discuss a settlement is resolved that the common- Perhaps, as he gets older, he wili mand for a Republic.

upon this basis. wealth of the unoppressed shall

The League advocates an offer Any such offer, say the Leagua, If both Irish parties are ready be founded. I wish we would all youth, though not its strength of by the Government of Fall Do should be subject only to two to attend such a meeting, de- strive to understand the deeply | adventurous resolve. He will

The basis sug-conditions:-

legates should be appointed to human and religious motives of remember the words of one of the seated is that Ulster Unionists 1-That an agreement between confer with the Government upon Labour before we pass bitter Old Testament prophets be loves should be asked, without aban- Britain and Ireland in regard ļa cessation of hostilities.-

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